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David Haines & Joyce Hinterding
Sunvalleyradio (Spherics and Fields; Live Broadcast from the
Ionosphere)
2010
audio, hand-made antenna, directional speaker, headphones, ink on silk, computer, website
In a collaborative practice spanning photography, sound art, scent, installation and new media,
Haines and Hinterding test the boundaries of the earth and the ether, the known and the
unknowable. Drawing inspiration from figures on the radical fringes of science such as Wilhelm
Reich, the duo appropriate scientific methodologies and aesthetics to ask artistic and
philosophical questions of both observable and invisible phenomena.
Sunvalleyradio (Spherics and Fields; Live Broadcast from the Ionosphere)
provides an expansive
experience of the sun. Sound plays an integral role in the artists’ work, and with a hand-made an-
tenna positioned on the roof of the State Library of Queensland, along with their own field record-
ings captured in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, the pair present the rumbling, crackling
sounds of solar winds interacting with the earth’s atmosphere.
The audio is presented in two ways for the exhibition: as
Spherics and Fields
, a combination of live
and mixed solar s
ic environments in library spaces, and as
Live
Broadcast from t
ream broadcast live and unfiltered from the State
Library antenna (
/). Their installation combines these two
components and
backdrop of an ink-on-silk painting of
saturated reds an
s to channel the “radiant energy
that reflects and
rth” (Haines & Hinterding, 2010,
Artist Statement.
. Documentation of the field
recording proces
panying the work, sees the pair
roaming bushlan
ents. They appear on the one hand
as rational artist-scientists, akin to the modern avant-garde, and on the other as esoteric diviners
of the immaterial.
